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Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer

By Antony , Lentin

Book information

Publisher
Haus Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781908323170, 1908323175
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1598275 bytes)
Pages
1 (123 Seiten)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

In the early summer of 1914 Sir Edgar Speyer and his wife Leonora stood at the center of London society, an era made famous by the television series Downton Abbey. He was the "King of the Underground" and patron of the arts, she a famous violinist and poetess. Yet within weeks of the outbreak of war, they became pariahs, objects of suspicion and aversion. The "anti-alien" campaign ensuing the sinking of the Lusitania forced the Speyers into exile in the United States. He was stripped of his membership of the Privy Council, but she went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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